Definitions | tom-tom |
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- (onomat) A small joined pair of drums, beaten with the hands.
- 1926, w:H. P. Lovecraft, H. P. Lovecraft, s:The Call of Cthulhu, The Call of Cthulhu,
- : It was voodoo, apparently, but voodoo of a more terrible sort than they had ever known; and some of their women and children had disappeared since the malevolent had begun its incessant beating far within the black haunted woods where no dweller ventured.
- (i, usually as a pair) Any cylindrical drum, with no snare; part of a drum kit.
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